Mutharika’s aide Chisale arrested over cement-gate:  Malawi police quiz Asian businessman Chunara

July 14, 2020 Mike Fiko –Nyasa Times 108 Comments

Former president Peter Mutharika’s personal bodyguard Norman Chisale has been arrested by Malawi Police Services (MPS) i in connection with cement worth K5 billion which was  imported duty-free.

Bodyguard Chisale with former president Mutharika  wearing same type of shoes

Chisale was put under arrest when he presented himself to police Tuesday morning after leanring that the law enforcers were going to nab him following their interrogation of  business person  Mahmed Shafee Ahmed Chunara on Monday.

National Police spokesperson James Kadadzera confirmed Prestige Import and Export owner, Chunara,  was questioned by the law enforcers over his involvement in the importation of cement using former president’s name.

Police sources indicate that Chonara implicated Chisale to be behind the cement scandal after he  was named in public tax collectors documents indicanting that he was involved in the importantion of 1.2 million bags of cement worth K5 billion.

He also claimed that all border clearances were done by Chisale.

The police source added that Chunara claimed there is documented evidence that the cement was collected by a State House official during time Mutharika was President and that the documents have been surrendered to the authorities.

Kadadzera a said Fiscal Police are continuing with their  investigations.

“We can confirm that he is in our custody in Lilongwe. Its premature for me to comment on the charges or any details because doing so may jeopardize investigations. When investigations are ripe we will inform the public,” said Kadadzera.

The Malawi Police Service, Fiscal and Fraud Section, already  arrested former Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) deputy commissioner general Roza Mbilizi in connection to the the cement Mutharika imported between 2018 and 2019 duty-free from Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Before Mutharika was ousted from power in the June 23 fresh presidential election, State House and MRA on June 16 justified the transaction as “within the law”, as it was for personal use.

The Presidents (Salaries and Benefits) Act allows the President “duty free importation of items for personal use”.

But private practice lawyer John-Gift Mwakhwawa had said the volume involved raised doubts on the “personal use” provision in the Presidents (Salaries and Benefits) Act and had called for an investigation.

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108 replies on “Mutharika’s aide Chisale arrested over cement-gate:  Malawi police quiz Asian businessman Chunara”

    1. Chisale alibe mwana. He separated with his wife because she had an affair ndi sergeant ndi kubelekelana mwana

  4. Biggest thief Chisale must rot in jail. Security guard Kumatibera tax payers money? Ndalama kumangonyemgera Mahule mkumagawana ma AIDS. Mbava imeneyi ikawole ku Maula

  6. Is he going to implicate Gertrude Maseko in this saga?? following with keen interest

  8. Remember also to arrest Joyce Banda on the issue of Jet-gate. Also Masangwi on the issue of Chasowa’s death. If you do that then justice has come but if not then you are just doing politics. When you will be out of government the same arrests will happen to you.

    1. Anakukanikani bwanji to arrest them if you had evidence iwe cadet? Banjenjemera – the noose is closing in on you as well if you participated in the plunder!

    3. That was for the previous government to pursue, or they did not find anything to go on for. As for these dpp thieves/thugs, THOUSANDS of evidence. Wa ku prison basi, NYEKHWE.

  11. The headline and the content of the story are conflicting. Is Chisale has been arrested or he has handed over himself to Police? Otherwise those who know that they don’t know the difference, don’t know the difference.

    1. Akulu. You can hand yourself over to police and they interrogate you and walk away. This scenario he handed himself to police and they have detained/arrested him. When they arrest you they read you your rights etc.

  12. Well done to the police for finally waking up but why is chunara not under arrest ? With his connections he can easily run away from malawi, he was acting like he owns malawi so lock him up till he is tried for his crimes and made to payback what he owes to malawi. Look into other indians and their deals – supply of food packs to army ??

  14. when are you gonna arrest cash-gate Queen bakha?? She sold presidential Jet, paja mwadya nawo zakuba ndizomwe mmapangira campain, Kodi nyumba yaku Area 6 mmanangira ndalama zake zitizo, za u lida of oppozishion?? Mukuchita bwino kunjata wanthu, osaiwala kufufuza za ndalama zomwe JZU anakabisa ku Swiss Bank, hotels in Botswana, UK, Europe and many overseas property, mlandu siuola. Let all the money stolen be returned, we want tangible development, modern road infrustructure, bullet trains, clean tab water all over Malawi, our villagers are tired of drinking water from bore0hole and shallow well, Malawi wokomera Tonse ayende isangokhala nyimbo, Cash-gate kwini and anaache should smell coffee ASAP.

    1. She has been around the previous government issued a warrant of arrest koma sanamumange ..tizizti alidi ndi mlandu?

    2. Why did the DPP govt not do it if they had a case against her. Mwayamba kubwebweta tu aka bwanji mwa njata ine uku uja ndiyo anayamba kuba amatero akuba

  15. Arresting them only does not do any good to Malawians, allow all of them to pay back the money within 3 months. Sell their assets and leave them with only one house to stay. Kwinako ndi phunziro kwa anthu onse akuba. I’m happy for this tsogolo lathu lowala. Most importantly we need money, for development, we need money for a living. Gwirani ntchito a president, don’t be distracted.

    1. I totally agree with you , but there are procedures that have to be followed. This has to be done methodically. Don’t worry there a light at the end of the tunnel

    2. This does not make sense at all. Why would one in their right mind leave some house to stay for a thief? Lock them up. Sell all they have if government money was used. Turn some of these houses into prisons, clinics, schools , offices etc and modify them as you can. Follow up everything, from Kamuzu era to Peters era. Those that can not be arrested for their demise status, recover what they left behind please. We also need a hall of shame pillar for all these eras. Some like change goal may appear in 3 different hall of shame pillars. We need our kids and grandkids to know them lest we forget.

  17. Mr Chisale is a big threat to our development.. He was deemed untouchable and its now payback time.. Let us wait and see kuti zitha bwanji

  18. I would love to see some Indians going to jail not because I hate them but because we all know they are Kings of bribes, I will be surprised if someone disputes this. I will even be skeptical if ousome of our Indian brothers ever got their citizenship with due process

    1. Indians are the most corrupt animals. Ask South Africans they will tell you. They sucked SAA, Transnet and Escorm dry dry. They all run away when Jacob Zuma lost. Luckily SA has asset forfeiture unit. They managed to freeze few assets and bank accounts to recover the loot. Ndiye ngati anayilowa Joz ka Malawi ndi kachani? Pano there are now algning with Tonse to finish where they left. Even amange athu akuda if Tonse leave Amwenye to be loose. Nothing will change. Mark my words

  19. Clearly so called ‘President was just a rubber stamp’ he (APM) was not mentally alert at all to know who really was in charge of the national affairs. The wolves surrounding him took full advantage of his incapacitation to wreck economical havoc in Malawi. Chisale and his ‘ first lady’ in the then paralyzed Malawi Police Service felt that they were untouchable by the arm of the law. The re-born Malawi Police Service is back! Today they have just found out that there truly is GOD in heaven. The Bible says that once you catch a thief, let him pay back seven times what he stole!!!

  20. Winanso amayamba ndi dzina loti B ndipo Chisale mpakana wathetsa banjalo. komatu B uyu akusangalala masiku ano ndi Chisale.Tsiku lina Chisale anafuna kumenyana ndi mwamuna wa B koma Chisale akanamupha ndi futi. B nthawi imeneyo anali ku Lodge waiting Chisale.

  21. Arrest the following in line with the cement gate:

    1. Choonara for abating and aiding corruption;
    2.MELTON trading

    We also need a general fine of MK5B for each of these Indians meeted out by MRA for evading tax.Do a forensic audit on their books and how much they have externalized.Malawi is not shire or Bwanje valley where one just uses them to grow crops which are later externalized to India or Pakistan.

    1. I am Indian born in beautiful Malawi. Moved to UK. Not in my name people who put money before humans and co fellow human family must pay the price. This is a dirty disgrace. NOT ONLY IS THIS A CRIME.. ITS MAKES ME SICK … love all decent people.. Indian or not a crime is a crime … again not in my name.

  23. Please prioritize RECOVERY of plundered Govt RESOURCES and not court processes where it is clear (there is documented evidence) these thieves CONVERTED Govt RESOURCES (money or property) into PERSONAL RESOURCES because court processes take time (the thieves will use stolen money to delay and corrupt the whole process–buy judges, prosecutors etc)!!!! Remember we still have the FORFEITURE law!!

  24. What a family of thugs!! Idiots who supported a mafia party with stollen monies from poor Malawians. They must rot in prison

  25. This is whereas a country we go wrong if Choonara was involved why have him go free after he and associates evaded paying taxes or rather stealing our monies. Is it that they are untouchables or we are afraid of the unknowns. Wake up guys if it was a local by now he would have been arrested not just interogation. My plea to bwana Ag IG lock Choonara or people will say its seletive justice forget about his coperation by handing over documents the guy is corrupt Matemba p or Biswick please take note and if police say its not within their sphere take it

    1. Amwenye samamangidwa ku Malawi bwana. There are a lot of cases involving Mwenenyes whose files are gathering dusts now e.g Unformgate. That rotten Indian is a free man after looting immigration money

  26. The case of the Chisales, on top of the world just a few short ago where everything was possible at a click of the finger: Husband, presidential bodyguard; wife, regional police commissioner. Now, wife arrested by fellow police on murder charges, husband arrested on corruption charges (May I hasten to say this is what we know now, he can’t have been involved in just one corruption scandal in the six years he has been at state house judging by the opulent houses he’s built and the fleet of cars he owns).

    If you two have children, and they have been used to this lifestyle or have looked at you, their parents as role models, what must be going through their innocent minds now?

  27. Ambuye Mulungu timadziwa alipo…..zinthu zinafika ponunkha zedi . Chisale mulonda chabe nkukwana Malawi yonse, enafe timamva kuti nyumba mmene amamangiramo nkumati koma ya ntchito yake ndi ya u gadi yomweyi? Koma chooooonde anthu okuba onsewa inde amangidwe koma ayambe abweza kaye ndalamazo kaye titukulire dzikoli abale. Milandu yawo iweruzidwe mwansanga azibale awo asanathawitse chuma chonse.
    Dzikoli ndalama ilipo yoti bwenzi pang’ono pokha ikutikankha akanakhala kuti si upandu wa dpp.
    Ndiye wina azinena kuti this is witch-hunting or politically motivated chikhalirenicho anthu amadziwa kuti ambiri mu dpp ndi zimbalangondo ndi mbava?
    Bwana Chilima chonde pangani zija munalonjeza. Ngati ku prison kulibe malo okwanira, tulutsani a milandu ing’onoing’ono kapena omwe akhala kundende mokwanira kuti mmalo mwake bwana kupitedi zigawenga zonsezi chifukwa mmene ndikuonera, ku dpp sikusala ambiri opanda tchimo plus awa a ma business mwa u crook. ….Mnyumba mukavundira chinthu zimafunika kukonzamo osati moyerekeza ayi kuti ka fungo kabwino kabwererenso . God/Jehovah/Allah Bless this country, Malawi.

  28. Koma ma hule onse mmadya ndalama za chisale ndikulembani manina apa, ku china mwapita mwapitanso. Kumakupsani na K1 million round imodzi plain mukabwera kuzamanena kuti samatha kukwata, ali ndi ka chida koperewera. Iweyo iwe iwe umakomda kunena kuti umamukakamula kuti ali ndi chi shaft, ukamaliza kukwatudwa umanamizira tulo umamuuza kuti amaitha game heavy kuli kumupopa, dzina lako lidzakhala pa #1 dzina lako limayamba ndi B umakhala ku M. Samalani azimai ambirinu muli mmabanja. Mizimu ikandiuza ndikutchulani

    4. Mukudziwana nonse amakudyani limodzi. Bwanji osangotchula, uli ndi nsanje poti sanakupatse zambiri kapena

  29. Mkhalira zomwezo kuchokera june 23 mpakana pano kuli ziii chomwe chikuoneka ndikusowa kwa ndalama basitu. Kuyendesa nkhosa za mlungu zikusiyana ndi kulamulira a mitsala ndi zigawenga nthawi imodzi. Tikufuna fertilizer tikayike mmadimba ife. Zitayeni izo zinadusa tiyang’ane chitsogolo.

    1. If you are one of the plunderers of our taxes you are next. The window is closing on you!!!! and you will pay back!!!!!!

    4. Are you fuckin kidding me. Sometimes we need History in order to move forward. 5 billion MWK is a lot of fertilizer buddy. Do you know something you’d like to tell us?

    5. I totally agree. These fools are focusing on arrests to blind people from asking key questions about their promises (fertiliser , tax-band etc)

    6. ine sinthawi yobaila feteleza. Tikadzala umuona feteleza akubwera. Pano azimanga kaye anthuwa. Nanga azingokhala Dr Chakwera ndi Mfana oganiza bhooo? Abapanga zinazake kaye

  30. A lesson to all those in power. Even King Nebuchadnezer had his power removed, it’s only after this that he learned that there is God.

  31. I hope Chunara will also be locked up pending investigation. I am tired of these Indians getting away scot free everytime they are caught with their hands in government coffers. If you continue protecting these Indian criminals one of these days people will violently turn against them and innocent lives could be lost.

    3. No Indian anywhere in Malawi can ever go to prison because even if arrested the Indian will bribe his way out of trouble helped by Ministers and even the President. All I can say to us Malawians is to observe silently as these Indians, Greeks and other foreigners are untouchable and indirectly rule Malawi with their bribes and corrupt deals. Malawi is for the Indians, Greeks and other foreigners to enjoy and Malawians to suffer.

    4. Indians and are Asians have different connotations. Most of our prominent Asian business persons are Pakistanis but they are all bundld together as “Indians”

      1. No, No, No the crooks stealing in daylight are Pakistani, but Chunara and others bribing and looting Malawi as a country are Indians. Chunara is as Indian as one can get. Imtiaz Master, Wahid Kassem, Faruk Gani, HTD, and all the others in pharmaceutical supply, fertilizer supply are Indians not Pakistani .You Indians are leeches sucking the blood of us Malawians. Go back to India, leave Malawi for Malawians.

        1. Handling fraudulently imported cement is a conspiracy – arrest Chunara. Or is the law in Malawi not applicable to Indians. If these Indian crooks were to be made to return the billions they have stolen from Malawi and invested in Dubai, South Africa, India and UK, then Malawi would be a rich country. All Indians out. Malawi is WATHU not Indians.

        2. I agree with.They must go. Else we will turn against them. We need clean Malawi. Since the dawn of democracy. Malawi has enriched these Indian mafias. They dont vote or match. They loot and take money back home

  32. great news, but the indian should’ve been arrested too, he is not a whistle blower, he is a beneficially in this scandal.

    1. Agreed. The fight against coruption in Malawi cannot be won if the people who perpetrate it are left scot-free. Some Indian businessmen are the major culprits in this domain. They should not be spared.

    2. Seasoned crooks cover their tracks my dear. The Indian guy is alleged to have proof that someone from the President’s office picked up the cement. All clearing at the borders has Chisale’s footprints and probably none of the Indian. Poor Chisale!! Kkkkkkk.

      1. Charge Chunara with conspiracy to commit fraud. For Chunara handled cement illegally imported to Malawi

  33. Witch-hunting trail going on so that people forget the promises made during the campaign. Soon, people will realise that this is just a circus. Rosa Mbilizi is out aready. Chinula was only questioned.

    1. Banda, one of the promises made by TONSE was to round up all thieves and criminals once in power. And this is what they are doing now!!! Fulfilment of the promises made is a process that will require time. I am happy that TONSE is keeping its promises. Arrest these thieves and criminals without fear or favour.

    5. This is a democratic Country @ Banda, do ypu expect the Law enforcement to shoot it’s own Citizens? The law is already taking its course we are not practicing Nazism in Malawi its democracy

    6. Corruption free malawi and arresting mbava are among the promises on the campaign trail, way to go Tonse Philosophy

  34. Is this Chisale the same who built the CCAP Church for his home congregants? If that is the case then this church is a stolen property of the Malawi Govt. isn’t it?Any way let the source of this Church be investigated as well.

  35. Squeeze his balls dry……….foolish idiot who thought he was the vice president of this nation!

  36. After long leave from work now we can see Police Service that we used to know in 80s and 90s is now back in service. Malawians will have trust now if you our men in uniform are working professionally. This is how it should be this country is going to be great again.

  37. This Chisale guy was also eating Roza Mbilizi big time most of the times three rounds on top of the many deals done between them.

  38. I m dpp from head to toe,koma apa pokha neighbour wagwira ntchito ,mulungu azikudalisa.ndipo olo utangomukhonyongola nkhosi nkoko ,yako ija .sindingadandaule. munthu uyu anatikwana kwambiri.

    1. Brother not all of us were pleased. These thugs ationongera chipani. Trust me its a cleasing we much needed in DPP. Soon we will be a clean force

      1. But you dpp guys you torrerated this rot too much. Some things were obvious that needed prompt action from above. But the whole dpp lived in denial. That’s the results.

  39. Great news ever told in July. Chisale arrested? This devil thought he owns everybody since he was guarding that old useless man. Banja lonse milandu.

  44. Let them pay.MRA has been charging alot of money on people from South Africa, just a TV and Fridge for a household up to MK100000 what more 1.2million bags of cement.

  45. Imagine all the money going in one porket insteady of helping the Malawians who are in entire poverty.This mwenye has taken this money to his home country leaving us in mbulanda and you expect this governing to stay like that ？Chakwera and Chilima people voted for you for this reason and do you job without fear we want all the money which was stolen must pay back for your operations to be succesful.We are hard working people who did not deserve poverty but these few individuals have taken us for granted for long time and now they need to face justice.

  46. This guy chisale has many issues to answer please Police and ACB expedite other cases. He over stretched his wings

  47. But how about those Indians. Also can you investigate Immigration on permit issuance. There is a syndicate involving officers and bank officials to be issuing fake bank receipts and the money is pocketed. To catch up these immigration thievses ACB should ask all those who have permit to submit their details to ACB and once the list is formulated, the list should be compared with the list of those issued permit at immigration and matched with receipts issued by the bank. You will notice that more permits were issued and less money was collected. One officer Chidothe was arrested on the same but his case died because all immigration officers including the boss is involved in this syndicate. Chidothe actually boasts that he can not stop such deals because even people at the ministry are involved and will protect him.

    1. And some Asians have their first issued passports at their embassies here in Malawi, the question is how did they get here?

  49. Finally he has followed his wife, Imagine the whole family being implicated eish. Sorry for the kids.

    No honeymoon in TONSE Alliiance, Malawi Police Service is back at work.

    1. NYEKHWE is REAL…The Chisales should pay for what they did😭😭 This is good news ever😅😅😅😅😅

      Norman welcome to Maula🤪🤪🤪🤪

      1. Moti Church anamanga ija ndalama zake zakubazi? That is why he will go to prison. And that church is cursed I am telling you.

        1. Nanunso ku MRA! Everyone there is corrupt including the small bwanas. They were receiving handouts from Asians in return for duty free goods.We know all of them.

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